“You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.”

“It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson – the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.”

“What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.”

“Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.”

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”

“Whatever men make," she says, "what they felt when they made it is there...Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.”

“There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.”